DVD Review: ‘The Guest’
★★☆☆☆ One era’s genre cinema becomes another generation’s cultural harvest. As the cycle repeats itself, the line between pastiche and revisionism becomes increasingly tenuous and […]
Film Review: ‘Unbroken’
★★☆☆☆ Angelina Jolie has stated that she has given up on acting and is now solely a director. If her sophomore effort Unbroken (2014) – […]
Film Review: ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
★★★☆☆ Strap on your sandals and unsheath your swords! Ridley Scott has cinematically traversed ancient Rome with Gladiator (2000) and the crusades with the abysmal […]
Top 20 Films of 2014: Part Two (10-1)
Welcome to our rundown of the top ten films of 2014. To see the cinematic delights that comprised the rest of our top twenty, check […]
Top 20 Films of 2014: Part One (20-11)
It’s that time of year where we brace ourselves for what’s to come. Yet before we say au revoir to 2014 the CineVue team has […]
Film Review: ‘Annie’
★★☆☆☆ Not even the promise of sunshine can save the one-note exercise in musical adaptations that is Annie (2014). Helmed by Will Gluck (of Easy […]
Film Review: ‘Stray Dogs’
★★★★★ A meditative, often gruelling slowburner which explores concepts of ‘home’, Tsai Ming-liang’s remarkable Stray Dogs (2013) seeks to investigate the poor’s right to their […]
Film Review: ‘Inherent Vice’
★★★★★ There Will be Blood (2007) gave us the birth of American capitalism, The Master (2012) doused us in the uncertainty of post-war malaise and […]
Film Review: ‘Horse Money’
★★★★☆ Since as far back as his third feature, 1997’s Ossos, the work of auteur Pedro Costa has frequently explored the troubled Lisbon district of […]
DVD Review: ‘We Still Kill the Old Way’
★★★☆☆ Respect is a funny old thing. In order to get a little, you also have to give a little. What Sacha Bennett’s sixth full […]
DVD Review: ‘Sex Tape’
★★☆☆☆ Boring, befuddling and slightly out-of-touch are all criticisms that can be aimed squarley atSex Tape (2014). In what is seemingly just a ninety minute […]
DVD Review: ‘The Keeper of Lost Causes’
★★☆☆☆ Nordic noir has been doing brisk trade on both page and screen over the last few years, cannily stimulating an apparently global appetite for […]
DVD Review: ‘The Guvnors’
★★☆☆☆ It’s unlikely that The Guvnors (2014) is going to be admitted to the canon of gangland crime thrillers in the near future. A middling […]
DVD Review: ‘God’s Pocket’
★★★☆☆ The feature debut from Mad Men actor John Slattery (who plays the wonderfully urbane Roger Sterling in the hit AMC show), God’s Pocket (2013) may […]
Johannes Holzhausen, ‘The Museum’
For a filmmaker responsible for an insightful opening of the curtain of an arts institution like he does on Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in The […]
Film Review: ‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb’
★★☆☆☆ There was an effortless charm to the original Night at the Museum (2006) that made it more than passable family fare, albeit of the […]
Film Review: ‘Kon-Tiki’
★★★☆☆ The ocean is vast and filled with peril, but it is the foolhardy resilience of men that proves the crux of Joachim Rønning and […]
Film Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’
★★★★☆ Damon Runyon is often imitated but never bettered – we won’t even hold it against him that he’s partly responsible (via proxy) for the […]